10 days before coming home, 24 yr old Cpl. Brandon Hocking was killed in Iraq

[The Straight Story]

Seattle soldier killed in Iraq

Cpl. Brandon Hocking, a 24-year-old soldier from Seattle, died Monday from wounds suffered in a roadside bomb attack in Iraq. He died just 10 days before his scheduled return home.

Cpl. Hocking was a small-arms repair specialist and also served as a convoy gunner, according to his sister, Brianna Hocking, who exchanged messages with her brother on Facebook just two weeks ago.

"I told him to stay safe, and he told me, 'Don't worry. I love you, and I will be home soon'," Hocking, of Reno, Nev., said Tuesday.

Cpl. Hockings's unit was attacked in the southern Iraq city of As Samawah.



http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014572021_hocking23m.html

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1. Thanks for posting I never hear of casualties anymore unless

it is someone local. The news media is too busy covering Charlie Sheen or whatever the story of the day is.

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2. k/r

the forgotten war.

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